Mammary
adjective
Relating to the breasts or milk-producing glands.
The doctor examined the mammary gland for any abnormal lumps.
Often appears as...
- mammary gland
- mammary tumor
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
adjective
Relating to the breasts or milk-producing glands.
The doctor examined the mammary gland for any abnormal lumps.
Often appears as...
- mammary gland
- mammary tumor
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/3Medical Context
Used in health and medicine, often related to conditions or functions of the breast.
The mammography scan checks for abnormalities in the mammary glands.
Pro Tip 2/3Animal Milk Production
Not just for humans, it also applies to milk-producing glands in other mammals.
The female cow's mammary glands are important for milk production.
Pro Tip 3/3Technical Specificity
It's a specific term used when discussing the anatomy or pathology of milk-producing organs.
The kitten's mammary glands will develop as she matures.
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Context
Used in health and medicine, often related to conditions or functions of the breast.
The mammography scan checks for abnormalities in the mammary glands.
Pro Tip 2/3Animal Milk Production
Not just for humans, it also applies to milk-producing glands in other mammals.
The female cow's mammary glands are important for milk production.
Pro Tip 3/3Technical Specificity
It's a specific term used when discussing the anatomy or pathology of milk-producing organs.
The kitten's mammary glands will develop as she matures.
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Context
Used in health and medicine, often related to conditions or functions of the breast.
The mammography scan checks for abnormalities in the mammary glands.
Pro Tip 2/3Animal Milk Production
Not just for humans, it also applies to milk-producing glands in other mammals.
The female cow's mammary glands are important for milk production.
Pro Tip 3/3Technical Specificity
It's a specific term used when discussing the anatomy or pathology of milk-producing organs.
The kitten's mammary glands will develop as she matures.
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Introducing a New Baby...
none of those are particularly big you can see here comes a much larger female who's actually got much bigger teeth so mammary glands and so I wonder if she's not the one that is actually the mother and she just went for a quick cooling down in the siblings have just protected around it I don't see any other females
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Tyrone Hayes + Penelope...
Because maintaining a pregnancy is dependent on hormones. Of those rats that don't abort, atrazine causes prostate disease in the pups so the sons are born with an old man's disease. Of those that don't abort, atrazine causes impaired mammary, or breast, development in the exposed daughters in utero,
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Mina Bissell:...
but I'm so glad it all worked out. So, we made a section of the mammary gland of the mouse, and all those lovely acini are there, every one of those with the red around them are an acinus, and we said okay, we are going to try and make this, and I said, maybe that red stuff
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Safari Live - Day 226 PIPE...
time with them and what will happen is unless you see them out in the field and maybe you see under the bellies and you're lucky to see the mammary glands that's the only time you can tell a male from a female otherwise from a distance it's difficult in size in general
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Safari Live - Day 340 PIPE...
mammary glands are enlarged but there's no sort of suckling happening there at the moment so the one other female that we sort of identified earlier that uh we were talking with one of the guides he said that she possibly had cubs but they didn't get very far
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The science of milk -...
The droplets combine with each other and other molecules and are then expelled and stored in spaces between cells. Mammary glands eventually secrete the milk through the breasts, udders, or, in the rare case of the platypus, through ducts in the abdomen.
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Safari Live - Day 190 PIPE...
this bed can be able to produce milk to give to their little ones and how the produced milk is very much interesting because they don't have mammary glands the only characteristic that is similar to that one of the mammals is that they
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Experiments that point...
take just a bit of that mammary gland which is called an asanas were there are all these little things inside the breast where the milk goes and the end of the nipple comes through that little tube when the baby sucks and we said
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A year in the life of...
But unlike other mammals, she has no nipples. Instead, her milk oozes from mammary glands onto her belly, where her babies slurp it up. This pooled milk invites bacteria,
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Safari Live - Day 316 PIPE...
bit of a bit of a lump everybody got a bit of a limp enlarged mammary glands
Video examples
Introducing a New Baby...
none of those are particularly big you can see here comes a much larger female who's actually got much bigger teeth so mammary glands and so I wonder if she's not the one that is actually the mother and she just went for a quick cooling down in the siblings have just protected around it I don't see any other females
Video examples
Tyrone Hayes + Penelope...
Because maintaining a pregnancy is dependent on hormones. Of those rats that don't abort, atrazine causes prostate disease in the pups so the sons are born with an old man's disease. Of those that don't abort, atrazine causes impaired mammary, or breast, development in the exposed daughters in utero,
Video examples
Mina Bissell:...
but I'm so glad it all worked out. So, we made a section of the mammary gland of the mouse, and all those lovely acini are there, every one of those with the red around them are an acinus, and we said okay, we are going to try and make this, and I said, maybe that red stuff
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 226 PIPE...
time with them and what will happen is unless you see them out in the field and maybe you see under the bellies and you're lucky to see the mammary glands that's the only time you can tell a male from a female otherwise from a distance it's difficult in size in general
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 340 PIPE...
mammary glands are enlarged but there's no sort of suckling happening there at the moment so the one other female that we sort of identified earlier that uh we were talking with one of the guides he said that she possibly had cubs but they didn't get very far
Video examples
The science of milk -...
The droplets combine with each other and other molecules and are then expelled and stored in spaces between cells. Mammary glands eventually secrete the milk through the breasts, udders, or, in the rare case of the platypus, through ducts in the abdomen.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 190 PIPE...
this bed can be able to produce milk to give to their little ones and how the produced milk is very much interesting because they don't have mammary glands the only characteristic that is similar to that one of the mammals is that they
Video examples
Experiments that point...
take just a bit of that mammary gland which is called an asanas were there are all these little things inside the breast where the milk goes and the end of the nipple comes through that little tube when the baby sucks and we said
Video examples
A year in the life of...
But unlike other mammals, she has no nipples. Instead, her milk oozes from mammary glands onto her belly, where her babies slurp it up. This pooled milk invites bacteria,
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 316 PIPE...
bit of a bit of a lump everybody got a bit of a limp enlarged mammary glands
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